Boeing Defence Australia CEO Darren Edwards is celebrating this week the completion of the company’s 100th P-8 Poseidon aircraft. Each plane carries composite ailerons designed and built by Boeing in Melbourne. Australia’s eight P-8A Poseidon aircraft are stationed at RAAF base Edinburgh north of Adelaide where 11 squadron carries out long rage surveillance and anti-submarine…
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Leading composites manufacturer, RPC Technologies has opened its six factory in Townsville to support work on the city’s Haughton Pipeline Duplication Project. The facility will produce Flowtite fittings for the project and employ local trades, adding to its 500 staff. RPC specialises in continuously wound glass reinforced plastic (GRP) pipe for Defence, Infrastructure, Renewables, Environment,…
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Victorian company PTI Pacific has installed what it claims is the world’s most gentle Crossflow Wine Filtration plant in association with Stirling Packaging (pictured).
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Clarity of common terms is needed in any emerging technology so we all know what others are talking about. Here is the Industrial Internet Consortium’s latest effort to get us talking the language of the IIoT. The Vocabulary Technical Report aims to create “a common set of terms and definitions for the hashtag#IIoT to more…
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Robern Menz a family owned Adelaide chocolate business has begun making the iconic Violet Crumble bar at its Glynde factory. The company bought the bar from its former owner, Nestle and has spent $4 million to refit its plant, making it the country’s largest producer of chocolate honeycomb. An additional 30 jobs were created. Nestle…
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The Australian Financial Review reports that Cochlear is trialling a completely internal version of its hearing devices on one patient, and is looking to do so in 10 or so patients over the next two years.
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Brisbane-based Australian Future Energy (AFE) will convert coal into ammonia, natural gas and electricity in a major investment in value-adding of coal set to be built in Gladstone.
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Following the success of CEA Technologies CEAFAR maritime radars, Defence Industry Minister Pyne has announced a second company will be encouraged into the radar field.
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Gilmour Space Technologies has raised $19 m from companies including Main Sequence Ventures (which manages CSIRO’s Innovation Fund), Blackbird Ventures and the US-based 500 Start-ups. The company is aiming to address a bottleneck in launches for the booming nano-satellite market, catered to by about a half-dozen operators globally.
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GE is to extend its success with 3D printing of aero engine parts to the locomotive industry. The company is targeting 250 parts to be 3D printed by 2025 – and we will see them here as numerous GE heavy locomotives are already in service in Australia.
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